When employers and employees avoid a few pitfalls, they operate from similar advantage points.
Pitfalls some leaders make in their efforts to resolve problems. Leaders who fail to get answers that satisfy workers and customers, tend to:
Miss one or two steps in a brain based decision making process, and it can wipe out your good efforts toward resolving a problem and holding onto your solution. 
1). lack alertness to indications and symptoms of problems around them. Leaders who mix with workers stay more alert than those who eat and make decision behind closed doors. Does your boss lack alertness that can pick up on problems before they burst into wars.
3). Act on opinions and personal assumptions rather than collect facts or redefine the problem when necessary.
4). Miss taking advantage of alternative solutions that others might suggest
5). Fail to gather and organize facts concerning identified alternatives.
6). Put less stock in any evaluation of their alternative resolutions.
7). Show indecisiveness when it comes to choosing and implementing the best alternatives that are suggested to resolve the problem.
8). Fail to follow up as a way to encourage further development.
How might these pitfalls act as a quick check for effective problem solving in your organization? Now there is a challenge that could change stagnation into zest for a new vision. What do you think?
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